By the mid-1940s, only three of the original Missourians remained in Cab Calloway’s lineup: Lammar Wright (trumpet), Andrew J. Brown (sax), and Walter ‘Foots’ Thomas. In 1943, however, he succumbed to the lure of other opportunities and, shortly after filming… Read the full story →
This is NOT a complete bibliography nor a scholastic study on the topic. Listed here are just the books I often refer to when I work on articles for this blog. Some are more essential than others, but I'm grateful… Read the full story →
First released under the title “Cab Calloway, le dandy de Harlem," in 2010 in France and Europe on the ARTE channel, the 52-minute documentary is directed by Gail LEVIN (US) and co-written with Jean-François PITET (France). The US release aired… Read the full story →
In October 1940, over 16 million American men registered for the nation’s first peacetime draft. Cab Calloway was among them. However, as biographer Alyn Shipton revealed, Calloway was turned down by his draft board “on the grounds of a slightly… Read the full story →
This is the unlikely meeting between an authentic jazz star and an emblematic French cartoon character: Cab Calloway telling his life story to “Grand Duduche”. And editorial cartoonist CABU (1938-2015), a fan of the former and the creator of the… Read the full story →